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"The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet" (Norton. 194 pages, $23.95), By Neil deGrasse Tyson: If there is an advocacy group for little guys in the universe, it must have been ...
On Feb. 18, 1930, 24-year-old Clyde Tombaugh discovered a faint, remote object on photographic plates he had taken Jan. 23 and Jan. 29 from Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. Astronomers credited ...
Once hailed as the ninth planet, Pluto has long captured the imagination of stargazers and scientists alike. Though it was reclassified as a dwarf planet, its story is far from small. Pluto is a land ...